This volume draws on the knowledge of many regulators and utilities analysts around the world. Some of these experts are colleagues; others have provided work that we have used without benefit of collaboration. Regulatory accounting is a bur- geoning field of endeavor, and regulators are increasingly establishing and publishing regulatory accounting requirements and standards. Awareness of and …
Growing Farms: Successful Whole Farm Management is a workshop series that enhances the success of new farmers by helping participants think through biological, physical, financial, and family aspects of farm business. The workshops include classroom and field sessions, and topics follow a natural sequence, from planning through production to long-term management. As participants progress throug…
Even as attention is increasingly paid to “going green” and to the role business can play to help solve sustainability problems, the flip side of the business-and-sustainability relationship has gone underexamined. Forget how management can affect sustainability. How will sustainability change management? The difference between the questions isn’t as subtle as it might sound. The …
The article marries Michael Porter’s industrial cluster theory of traded and local clusters to Richard Florida’s occupational approach of creative and routine workers to gain a better understanding of the process of economic development. By combining these two approaches, four major industrial-occupational categories are identified. The shares of U.S. Employment in each – creative-in-…
What is ‘business development’? This is usually the first question I have to answer whenever I’m asked what I do for a living by people outside the pharmaceutical industry. The answers I try to give are oen tailored to the audience and what they are likely to quickly understand from their own experience. However, as few people have any idea that such a role exists beyond some hazy idea …
We wrote a second edition of this book for two reasons. First, the Statistics Toolbox for MATLAB® has been significantly expanded since the first edition, so the text needed to be updated to reflect these changes. Second, we wanted to incorporate some of the suggested improvements that were made by several of the reviewers of the first edition. In our view, one of the most important issues t…
Statistics is concerned with the science of uncertainty and can help the scientist deal with these questions. Many classical methods (regression, hypothesis testing, parameter estimation, confidence intervals, etc.) of statistics developed over the last century are familiar to scientists and are widely used in many disciplines [Efron and Tibshirani, 1991]. Now, what do we mean by computational…
It was mid-January 2003. Things were going well in my role as a network engineer supporting data center networks at Cisco. My team celebrated on January 21 when our site vice president powered off the last Avaya PBX; the Research Triangle Park (RTP) campus telephony was now 100% VoIP. We had just completed several WAN circuit and hardware upgrades and were beginning to see the highest availabil…
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, or simply SharePoint, is the new buzzword around Microsoft software. I first used SharePoint some years back simply to store documents and access them from home via the Web. Over time, I came to realize that this software offered an opportunity to totally change the way I work with documents in that it blurred the distinction between the local PC and the Inte…
Plug-ins allow third-party developers to add additional functionality to software applications and frameworks. Plug-ins exist for many different types of applications, such Mozilla Firefox (Add-ons and Extensions), Microsoft Word (Add-Ins), and development frameworks such as Salesforce.com. As Oracle Application Express (APEX) has been growing, so have the requests from the APEX community for …
There is a wealth of alternative literature on cryptography, thus presenting a healthy range of options for a reader wishing to pursue cryptography from a variety of different perspectives. A substantial number of cryptography books focus on presenting the mathematical aspects of cryptography. Many of these are textbooks targeted at computer science or mathematics undergraduate students.Forourp…
English Pronunciation in Use Advanced gives students of English practice in pronunciation to help improve both speaking and listening. Although it has been written so that it can be used for self-study, it will work equally well in a class situation with a teacher. It will be particularly useful for students whose English is adequate for most social, professional or educational purposes, bu…
This book has been written to help business managers, and the IT teams supporting them, understand why effective enterprise-wide search is essential in any organization, and how to go about the process of meeting user requirements. This could be by improving the existing search application(s) or by specifying and implementing a new search application. Search technology is not easy to understand…
Economists have, in some sense, always known that growth is important. Yet, at the core of the discipline, the study of economic growth languished after the late 1960s. Then, after a lapse of two decades, this research became vigorous again in the late 1980s. The new research began with models of the determination of long-run growth, an area that is now called endogenous growth theory. Othe…
The six chapters and its associated ten appendixes of this edition of field manual (FM) 5-0, The Operations Process, constitute the Army’s view on planning, preparing, executing, and assessing operations. Together with FM 6-0, Mission Command: Command and Control of Army Forces, this manual provides the Army with a common philosophy and language for the exercise of command and control thro…
Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent of psychological disorders, affecting up to 25% of individuals in the general population at some time in their lives (Kessler et al., 1994). Despite their high prevalence, however, anxiety disorders often go undiagnosed and untreated, especially in primary care settings (e.g., Weiller, Bisserbe, Maier, & Lecrubier, 1998). In addition, there is …
This resource has been compiled to give a general introduction to effective communication for practice educators. In the first section, the key components of the communication process will be discussed. The basic skills required for effective communication will be explored in the next few sections, and some specific contexts for communication, including giving presentations and feedback meet…